My all time favourite game! I can’t even beging to describe how great it is. Bought as Rygar from the US, romswapped into an Argus No Senshi(The Japanese version), since that’s just a way more fun version of this game. I do have a JAMMA-adapter to it now, and I’m gonna try to get a score higher than my MAME one @ 4 .5 million points. Check out the Rygar fan site!.

This if by far my favourite Capcom game. It’s filled with secret bonuses, challenging gameplay (yet not in a clumsy way like in Ghost n’ Goblins). Too bad it takes me on average 1.5 hours to play 1 credit. Got this from an excellent eBayer in the US.Click here for more info

Hacha Mecha Fighter | JAMMA PCB | 1991 NMK

Played this at a small shmupmeet and really liked it right away. So when one appeared on eBay I got it for a fair price. Sometimes these appear at crazy prices, don’t bite.

I bought this from a friend of mine who’s also an arcade enthusiast (aren’t we all?) and we’re both happy about it. This game is not currently emulated in MAME, so it’s even more fun to own and be able to play.

I bought a Rad Action pcb a while back and found out that the sound is decrypted with a suicide CPU. I wanted sound, so I got this (possibly a bootleg, we don’t know that for sure) Ninja Kid II without decryption. Too bad that the gameplay is rediculously hard in this revision of the game.

I bought this at the same time I got my Super Contra. Very nice horizontal shmup with a couple of hidden bonuses through out the game. The powerups are one of a kind. The regular shots are the same throughout the game, but the secondary change instead, all with different advantages.

Bought from a nice canadian bloke with three other games. I’ve made an adapter for this and it’s working but except for the sound. My board says SEGA so,I guess it’s the sega version that currently doesn’t seem to work in MAME.

Classic, one-of-a-kind platform action from Namco. I’ve only gotten to stage 6 (in MAME), now I intend to complete the mission for super-cool agent Albatross. Got this on eBay with buy it now for a lousy $35. It was dusty, but I got it somewhat cleaned up now..Click here for more info

Secret Agent | JAMMA PCB | 1989 Data East Corporation

Here’s another picture of the pcb and here’s one of the whole kit I have for it.

I’m guessing that licensing the “James Bond” moniker for this game had been very expensive, and since it’s just so perfect in capturing that cool spy vibe anyway that doesn’t matter. Also known as “Sly Spy”, this Data East item is pure gold. Bought from swedish seller.

Action-packed, fun shooting fun for two! What a great idea, combining a sidescrolling shooter (heli/player 1) with the Rygaresque Tecmo jump/attack gameplay (jeep/player 2). The team that whipped up this concept should get a prize! My very first PCB. Bought from the US and A on eBay.Click here for more info

Solomon’s Key (Bootleg) | JAMMA PCB | 1986 Tecmo Limited

Apparently, this is one of the most rare [L@@K!) arcade PCB’s you can have in your collection. It’s current retail price is around $400 if you find a working original. Mine is an OK bootleg, so it costed me a tenth of that. The original were made both as Tehkan compatible and as JAMMA, so I’m glad mine is based on the latter. Too bad my sound is broken. I’ll try to get it fixed. Another fantastic Tecmo game.

My first CPS-1 game. Probably the only one. You really only need this, since it’s the best and has three games in one! Midnight Wonders, the platform shooter, Chariot, horizontal shmup and Don’t Pull, a puzzle action game, like Pengo. Bought from Madness, the swedish game collector extraordinare.

Toaplan.org
A buddy of mine cleverly grabbed this adress for his personal arcade blog/collection

World Of Arcades
A wonderful site filled to the brim with info about CAVE, Raizing and Psikyo shmups

About me

Hi folks,

I'm a bit too old (born 1974), father of two girls and one boy and have been an avid arcade game fan since I first got to play Knuckle Joe (the game's really crap, what was Taito thinking?) but it got me hooked. Me and a couple of my friends used to ride our bikes around town just to check out the latest games. And we we're really good at playing them. Luckily for me, the game operators responsible for the machines around my home town really had a great feel for what games would be popular.

Look at my collection to see some of the titles that I now as an adult had do have. I was too young to play at the local video rental (they had two NSM cabinets and later switched one of them to a JK Cabinet) and the best operator in town, Video Games was their name.

I stood there watching the older kids play. There was the 15 year age-limit and I was only about 13 at the time. I also played a lot on Aleph cabinets. The operator that favoured those is called Adon-Bolagen.